Re: [Boost-build] link switches

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] link switches
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-11-12 22:35:24

On 11/12/17 2:14 PM, Steven Watanabe via Boost-build wrote:
> AMDG
> 
> On 11/12/2017 03:03 PM, Robert Ramey via Boost-build wrote:
>> Putting the finishing touches on my fix to the serialization library
>> tests, I have two pesky tests left.  One is to test a shared library
>> plugin on unix/linix.  Boiled down to it's essentials, the jamfile looks
>> like:
>>
>> ...
>> lib polymorphic_derived2
>>      :
>>          polymorphic_derived2.cpp
>>      :
>>      ;
>> ...
>> run test_dll_plugin : polymorphic_derived2 : <link>static:<build>no
>> <linkflags>-ldl ]
>>
>> But I'm getting an error when I invoke the jamfile:
>>
>> don't know how to make <e>polymorphc_derived2
>>
>> So what am I doing wrong here?
>>
> 
> You have the arguments for `run` in the wrong order.
> 

My mistake. I transposed this by hand from the function I actually use 
which is:

rule test-bsl-run ( test-name : sources * : libs * : requirements * )

in serialization/util/test.jam.

So my actual command is

test-bsl-run test_dll_plugin : : dll_polymorphic_derived2_lib : 
<link>static:<build>no <target-os>linux:<linkflags>-ldl

which should resolve to:

run test_dll_plugin : :dll_polymorphic_derived2_lib : 
<link>static:<build>no <target-os>linux:<linkflags>-ldl :  test_dll_plugin

I'm confused about "sources" which I take to mean *.cpp and *.hpp files 
and "input-files" which I take to mean ?  other targets.  Or should 
other targets - in this case dll_polymorphic_derived2_lib be in 
requirements?  In which case I don't know what "input-files" would be for.

Robert Ramey